Scandic Park Stockholm

... down side is, you get a number (we were 85) and then sit down. When the order is ready, the waiter walks around with it and yells out the number... in Swedish.... that was a challenge. I figured if he walked all over (there were 2 storeys in this coffee place) and he couldn't find anyone to give it to, it would be ours. :) It worked.<br><br>After food and another trip to a free toilet, off we went. Walked back to the hotel (it's so weird calling a 2 star a hotel) and unloaded ...

... When we left Stockholm, we had been up for 7 ½ hours. Hunt for Harriet Results. The faithful hunters of Harriet are still working on her location in Tallinn. I will give them a little longer to find her as that was the final Hunt for Harriet. I have placed another photo taken of Harriet and she is in the same place as the first. Maybe this perspective will be of help in finding her. See the Tallinn Where is Harriet Hunt. If you want to find Harriet now she will be at home.

Was the chef on the Muppets the first TV chef? I don't know, but in the late 1970s he was a big hit. Wearing a toque blanche, raising those bushy eyebrows, and man-handling those utensils, the chef always seemed happy, singing along in Swedish gibberish. "Bork! Bork ...

... where they have the Nobel dinner. She also pointed out the Grand Hotel, which was the first to have indoor running water, electricity, and they changed the sheets every day! I would have liked to spend more time here seeing some of the other cities in Sweden because it is a very nice country. This is where my ancestors came from. After our 2nd tour, it was back to the ship and we set sail for Gdansk, Poland.<br>

Skansen is Europe's original open-air museum having opened in 1891. It's a huge park where more than 150 historic buildings from all over Sweden have been transplanted. Skansen was the first in what become a Europe-wide movement to preserve traditional architecture in open-air museums. Despite the drizzle and cool temperatures I visited each of ...

... which was interesting. Stockholm is a city of islands, which can make it difficult to navigate and get around but it is a very pretty city. There are many nice buildings, one of which in the city hall where they also award the noble prizes. The city hall is right on the water as well and this is where the mayor apparently drank a glass of water directly out of the lake for the ...

... näive in my opinion that I would not need such a frivilous thing as lotion while I was travelling. After catching the shuttle back, I had intended to explore more of Old Stockholm, but I was feeling so bad that I just went back home. I slept for four hours and met some other girls in my dorm room, on of which was from Washington. I love meeting people from home. They asked me if I wanted to go out to dinner with them, but I wasn't feeling quite up to it ...

... to the airport and that was in the middle of nowhere too. Smallest airport I have ever been to. We actually thought our runway would be a dirt path and Jason thought some boy would be chasing cows off the runway with an airhorn. It wasn't really that bad but you know how your imagination can just get out of control. So we flew to Glasgow and that was about it, nothing interesting other than ...

Hej! I have been in Stockholm now 2 weeks and, in some ways, have lacked anything to say in my travel pod. Since I'm living here for quite awhile, I don't feel the normal pressure to go see and do everything immediately. So I've done a few touristy things (I don't recommend Skansen, the "outdoor museum" that is also kind of a zoo), but I've also spent time doing normal set-up things like going to the grocery, hardware and department stores. Not really that exciting, but a good way ...

After few beers and a one last kiss in the cemetery at Klara Church in downtown Stockholm and Julia and I finished strapping down our bags. I arrived in Stockholm nearly 12 years earlier riding El Burro IV from Amsterdam with destination Istanbul, apparently I was sidetracked... now I am resuming the tour. El Burro Vs upgraded features include wroking brakes, waterproof bags, a cycle computer, 17 more gears, aluminum frame, hexbolts, reinforced rims... well, everything.